Contract manufacturer
Contract manufacturers excel at producing a variety of products for different customers, but this variety makes them vulnerable to quality inconsistencies and complex compliance challenges.
Limited control over input
‘We receive a bill of materials in Excel and have to figure out the differences ourselves.’
Contract manufacturers often receive limited and fragmented information from clients: bills of materials in Excel and 2D drawings in PDF format. It is up to them to identify the differences with previous designs and determine the impact on the assembly process and cost price. This analysis is time-consuming and prone to errors, especially for complex products with hundreds of components. Without structured version comparison and impact analysis tools, this overhead-intensive task remains a bottleneck that puts pressure on margins and extends lead times.
Baseboard automatically imports bills of material and converts them into a structured database. The system performs intelligent version comparisons between new and existing designs, indicating exactly which parts have been added, modified or removed. By linking these differences to assembly steps and cost data, you gain immediate insight into the cost impact of design changes. This drastically reduces the overhead of manual analysis and prevents important changes from being overlooked, and gives you a competitive edge.
By centrally storing all design iterations and assembly knowledge, Baseboard builds up a valuable knowledge archive for each customer and product. For new orders, the system can automatically identify similar projects and suggest existing assembly procedures. This not only speeds up the quotation phase, but also ensures more consistent quality and shorter training times for operators when dealing with new product variants.
